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Tiger back, Miguel for the ages
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Tiger back, Miguel for the ages

Hong Kong – A couple of comebacks and the continued emergence of a bright young star feature in AFP Sport’s golf talking points for this week. When Tiger Woods returns to competitive golf for the first time in five months at Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial Tournament tomorrow, he will do so in exalted company. Woods will...

Real Madrid one win from La Liga crown 
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Real Madrid one win from La Liga crown 

MADRID – Real Madrid need one victory to secure La Liga after they held off a second-half comeback from Granada on Monday to win 2-1 and move four points clear of Barcelona. With two games left, Madrid will be crowned champions if they beat Villarreal at home tomorrow regardless of how Barca fare at the...

Pandemic risks ‘surge’ in infectious disease deaths
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Pandemic risks ‘surge’ in infectious disease deaths

Paris – Poorer nations could see hundreds of thousands of additional deaths from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria as Covid-19 disrupts vital health services and access to life-saving treatment, new research warned yesterday.  Modelling the impact in countries that will bear the brunt of the three diseases over the next five years, the study found that...

Parents wary of sending kids back to school 
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Parents wary of sending kids back to school 

Hilma Hashange  Parents of lower primary learners are worried about sending their children back to school as Covid-19 cases surge. The pre-primary to grade 3 learners resumed face-to-face classes on 7 July and many parents fear that their children are not ready to go back to school. Diana Slinger, a parent of a grade 2...

Namandje, LSN ruling on Friday
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Namandje, LSN ruling on Friday

A ruling in a legal battle between prominent local defence lawyer, Sisa Namandje and the Law Society of Namibia (LSN), is expected to be made public in the High Court on Friday. Initially, High Court Judge Herman Oosthuizen, who is presiding over the matter, was scheduled to give his ruling on 24 July 2020. However,...

Khomas entrepreneurs assisted with equipment
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Khomas entrepreneurs assisted with equipment

David Adetona Khomas governor Laura Mcleod-Katjirua recently handed over equipment and material worth N$700 000 as part of the development programme dedicated to small-scale entrepreneurs or for the self-employed to participate in local economic activities and to also create employment in the region. The governor’s development programme partnership since 2014 with Namsov Fishing Enterprises through...

Shifeta launches NILALEG project
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Shifeta launches NILALEG project

ONDANGWA – The Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta officially launched the Namibia Integrated Landscape Approach for Enhancing Livelihoods and Environmental Governance to Eradicate Poverty (NILALEG) project at Ondangwa in Oshana on Friday. The NILALEG project is being implemented jointly by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, the University of Namibia and...

Covid-19: MPs want investment in battered agriculture sector
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Covid-19: MPs want investment in battered agriculture sector

Moses Magadza Members of parliament, who represent their countries on the SADC PF Standing Committee on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, are cracking their heads over how to help revive the agriculture sector to ensure there is regional food security. This, as evidence, mounts that the on-going global Covid-19 pandemic has sent the sector in...

Opinion – The critical essence of independence and economic development
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Opinion – The critical essence of independence and economic development

Let me start by making it very clear that our protracted liberation struggle has never been against racial groups, in this case particularly the whites. The struggle was against inhuman exploitation, unjust and oppressive colonial occupation and apartheid rule. The fact, however, was that under the apartheid system, the exploited were supposed to be the...